and if you are out at the airport, there is a chance their flight just goes canceled because a major winter nor easter is slamming the east coast. the powerful system bringing rare freezing rain, snow and ice to parts of the south. weather alert, and advisories warning millions to stay off the roads and stay home and watch tv. there have been hundreds of accidents along the coast. two people are dead after their vehicle went off the road and struck several trees in the median in north carolina. let s check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for the fox weather. janice, portions of the carolina has close to a foot of snow with this thing. janice: yeah, foot of snow and over half an inch of ice which is so dangerous. the temperatures are still below freezing in a lot of these areas. so, it s hard to get those roads cleared and it s kinds of a good thing that we are into a holiday monday situation. a lot of people should not be on the roads. we are still dealing with this storm th
rochester new york we are expecting anywhere 15 to 20 inches of snow when this snow is all said and done. rochester was in a snow drought before this storm. 18 inches belly average before the storm. but as you can see, conditions have now changed. crews have been hard at work. clearing the sidewalks. you see they are doing a great job of clearing the sidewalk and they are clearing the roads. buses are running. you can see them going by right now. still travel conditions are going to be tricky in western and central new york. we are seeing gusts of up to 45 miles per hour. that s creating very tough driving conditions in a lot of areas. roads are slick in some places. and we re seeing some flight cancellations, too. here in rochester dozens of flights have been canceled because of the storm. having impacts throughout central and western new york as well. again, between 18 and 24 inches of snow expected here in rochester, a beautiful sight to see.
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councilman. we will be here all morning. rachel: what great message. i have a daughter that lives in a city very young girl. i m happy to see someone taking a stand on crime. i don t want to mom you, lawrence but i really wish you would zip that coat up. lawrence: i promise you after this i am going to zip the coat up. i. rachel: i know you are a fashion icon. steve: look cool. lawrence: got to highlight the turtle neck. if you do you will mess it up, rachel. rachel: it doesn t matter what you wear, lawrence, you always look good. we will check in later with you on the show as well. lawrence: thanks, friend. rachel: a major weather storm dumping snow and ice. after bringing a rare wintry mix to the south. millions of americans are under weather alerts and advisories stretching nearly a thousand
to get there. as you can see standing around me not standing in 12 inches yet. i will tell you the snow that we have got here, it kind of crumbles in your hand. it is a day off for a lot of people. a holiday. maybe not snowball building weather. still a good day to stay off the roads. because we have been standing here and we saw some snowplows come across in area about an hour ago. as you can tell the roads are still accumulating quite a bit. something that you would definitely want to stay away from if you can the pittsburgh mayor said in a news conference earlier this week they are not really want to be when it comes to the snowplows. they said a lot of their snowplows are actually outdated. the average age of a snowplow in pittsburgh is 11 years old. they are not where they want to be they are going to get there we have soon seen the plows out and about. 40 to 70 out and about at any given time. rachel? rachel: thank you, katie. turn now to senior meteorologist janice dean tracki